Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'arrows' occurs 63 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'arrows' in the standard works and contain 23.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 20:20-22 (4 in 3 verses)

 20:20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

 20:21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the Lord liveth.

 20:22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the Lord hath sent thee away.





Alma 49:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

 49:2 And behold, the city had been rebuilt, and Moroni had stationed an army by the borders of the city, and they had cast up dirt round about to shield them from the arrows and the stones of the Lamanites; for behold, they fought with stones and with arrows.

 49:3 Behold, I said that the city of Ammonihah had been rebuilt. I say unto you, yea, that it was in part rebuilt; and because the Lamanites had destroyed it once because of the iniquity of the people, they supposed that it would again become an easy prey for them.

 49:4 But behold, how great was their disappointment; for behold, the Nephites had dug up a ridge of earth round about them, which was so high that the Lamanites could not cast their stones and their arrows at them that they might take effect, neither could they come upon them save it was by their place of entrance.





2 Kgs. 13:15 (2 in 1 verse)

 13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.





Hel. 16:2 (2 in 1 verse)

 16:2 But as many as there were who did not believe in the words of Samuel were angry with him; and they cast stones at him upon the wall, and also many shot arrows at him as he stood upon the wall; but the Spirit of the Lord was with him, insomuch that they could not hit him with their stones neither with their arrows.





Hel. 16:6 (2 in 1 verse)

 16:6 But the more part of them did not believe in the words of Samuel; therefore when they saw that they could not hit him with their stones and their arrows, they cried unto their captains, saying: Take this fellow and bind him, for behold he hath a devil; and because of the power of the devil which is in him we cannot hit him with our stones and our arrows; therefore take him and bind him, and away with him.





1 Ne. 16:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

 16:14 And it came to pass that we did take our bows and our arrows, and go forth into the wilderness to slay food for our families; and after we had slain food for our families we did return again to our families in the wilderness, to the place of Shazer. And we did go forth again in the wilderness, following the same direction, keeping in the most fertile parts of the wilderness, which were in the borders near the Red Sea.

 16:15 And it came to pass that we did travel for the space of many days, slaying food by the way, with our bows and our arrows and our stones and our slings.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 41 2 43
Num. 1 0 1
Deut. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 6 0 6
2 Sam. 1 1 2
2 Kgs. 3 0 3
1 Chr. 1 1 2
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 13 0 13
Prov. 1 0 1
Isa. 2 0 2
Jer. 3 0 3
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 4 0 4
Hab. 1 0 1
NT 0 4 4
BM 22 0 22
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 63 6 69

1 Sam. 20:20
And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

1 Sam. 20:21
And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the Lord liveth.

1 Sam. 20:22
But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the Lord hath sent thee away.

1 Sam. 20:36
And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

1 Sam. 20:38
And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.